The Darkness and Ninja Gaiden Sigma have both recently emerged to push back the barren summer dirge that has been plaguing the industry since Hollywood blockbuster season started. Can the appearance of Artoon-developed Xbox 360-exclusive Vampire Rain add to the shamefully short list of worthy summer releases, or is it destined to fall by the wayside as yet another missed next-gen opportunity?
GamerSquad offers up the collected opinions of the review specialists.
Gary Hartley Writes: It's okay. No, really.
Canceled Square Enix game Gun Loco was made by the same company that made Vampire Rain
Siliconera: Two Linkedin profiles point to AQ Interactive, more specifically their Artoon division. Artoon handled Blinx the Time Sweeper, Blue Dragon, and umm… Vampire Rain. The Last Story was sort of an Artoon project too, but by then AQ Interactive de-branded all of their studios into one giant AQ Interactive family.
Ahh, Vampire Rain, the worst "next-gen" game demo I have ever played on Live. It was laughably bad...
GOTY,.. kekekekeke,.. Fucking loco!!!
Ok,.. will try to be nicer to 360 gamers ,.. but this is just ,..omg I cannot stop laughing,.. lololo
OXM UK writes: "Shivering Isles. Lost & The Damned. Rock Band 2. Left 4 Dead.
There has been plenty of awesome DLC on Marketplace that has helped extend the life of your favourite games thanks to new game modes, weapons, cars or whatever else. Good DLC will rally the Xbox Live community back to the old favourites and provide the perfect excuse to blow the dust off a long neglected game.
Even so, there's been plenty of tat too. Some publishers have seen it as a cheeky excuse to try and squeeze a few extra coins out of eager gamers while other DLC has just been... bad. Plain bad. So which ranks as the worst?
5. Vampire Rain Mission Pack
Description: Extra single player missions..."
Didn't tales of Vesperia have dlc for 1 million gold and to increase your level by 5 of something like that?
I think that was the worst dlc with horse armour not far behind.
Yup, you're right. They did have purchasable money and levels. Sad really.
Don't think that can count as DLC, though, as it's not really content. They did count the money on The Godfather, though, so I guess it'd be fair game in this site's list.
Why does everyone rip on Horse Armor? I liked how it made my horse smexy and whatnot.
The Godfather had DLC were you paid money to get money in the game also they had a complete everything in skate 2 DLC.
Looking purely in terms of what you get, the Stranglehold map pack was good, it had a lot in it as well, the pricepoint may have been a bit too much though.
I wonder if anybody thoguht this was good after seeing the gameplay trailer?.
If you have a PS3 and a 360 get Ninja Gaiden Sigma, if you only have a 360 then stay away from Vampire Rain! Utter garbage!
So far there has (Everywhere apart from Japan) been only 2 half decent Japanese games - Enchanted Arms and Nintey Nine Nights on the 360 where Japan has had the ultimate Blue Dragon Japanese game that everyone else is waiting for.
The PS2 was a great platform and still is for Japanese games and its a shame that a first attempt for the 360 has resulted in nothing but short comings of not so great Japanese games - oh apart from on the old Xbox Ninja Gaiden and the Dead Or Alive games.